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[00:00:29] We got a lot to discuss tonight. I'm going to talk about The Devil's epic meltdown in the third period against the Calvary Flames. A few other things. Tim has a lot on his mind today. Bob has a game. But before we get rolling, we have a shout out to our Hockey Podcast Network sponsors. DraftKings Sportsbook, this NHL season has been as predictable as a puck rolling on its edge and no one knows where it's going.

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[00:02:19] I mean, I remember times where like 10 o'clock on Friday nights, Bob, we wouldn't be at home talking on a computer. We used to have fun. Yeah, that doesn't happen anymore. Now I'm stuck doing this shit with you fucking guys. Oh, shit. Did I say that out loud? You did. You did. I'm only teasing. So, I mean, you said it before Bob and I were about to say the same exact thing. So, yeah.

[00:02:47] You know, this is getting really stupid, guys. I mean, seriously, this team is, I mean, personally, and I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts on everything. But I thought they played a really good 40 minutes. The first two periods I thought were solid. They, you know, didn't capitalize on all their opportunities. But like you even wrote, Tim, Dustin Wolf played great. I mean, he's going to be a very, very good goalie for them for a long time.

[00:03:18] But you still had a two-goal lead going into the third. And once again, like we saw in the Columbus game, the difference being Jacob Markstrom wasn't Jake Allen. But they go into this prevent defense. They forget how to forward check. They forget how to press the play offensively. And, I mean, we all thought in the Columbus game that it was going to end badly. They managed to hold on. But it was only a matter of time.

[00:03:45] You keep playing like that, that it's going to end badly. And last night, you know, you went into the third. And you shit down your pants. And you lost a fucking game and allowed four unanswered goals in the third period. To me, unacceptable for a team going into a playoff. So, and, you know, firmly in a playoff spot. You're in top three in the Metro.

[00:04:07] Teams that are in the top three of any division shouldn't be having games like this with a little over 10 games left, whatever it is, 12 games left now. So, I was disgusted with that third period. But I'm so curious to hear you guys. Bobby, you know. Yeah. Let me start first. I want to give you where I was coming from, my headspace that night.

[00:04:31] You know, we've touched on this a little bit before about my kids' middle school hockey team. And I was at that game for the first, better part of the first period of the Devils game. And we had to go up against the one team that had beaten us so far in the playoffs, causing us to fall into this kind of loser bracket and play more games instead of just winning four through the championship. This was a team that came down from above the developmental league and was placed into our season at playoff time.

[00:05:01] And we drew them. Usually those moves are made during the season so you have a little bit more time because they're kind of restructuring the quality of the teams. Anyway, this was the one team that embarrassed our guys quite a lot. A few weeks ago, it was a 4-0 shutout. So I talked about it. That was the puker, right? That was the puker, the puking rally goalie. I talked about how that team was just on our team from the jump. Everything they did, they were on it. There was no traction. Our team was frustrated.

[00:05:29] Well, fast forward, this is the team that we had to get through to make it to the finals. What I saw from this group of 10 to 14-year-olds, mostly in the 12 to 13 range, was a bunch of young kids playing like adults. The playoff intensity of this game was so incredible. Every one of those players understood the magnitude of this game. They had the appropriate amount of fear. They had all the drive.

[00:05:55] Every one of them was going as if they were embarrassed by this team and they had to show them that's not going to happen again. The little things I saw in this game, it makes you so happy from a hockey perspective. Number one, they scored the first goal. This is the team that shut you out. It was a huge first goal. Number two, they didn't give up on a play very late in the first. About nine seconds left, I saw them down by the cage, and I just had a feeling. They didn't give up on a play, and they scored a goal with 1.5 seconds left. Wow.

[00:06:25] That's into the second period where the other team slowly came back. It wasn't bang, bang. They scored once. They scored twice, maybe midway through the second. And what did the team do in response? Exactly what you want to see. About 45 seconds into the next shift, it's 3-2 east. They have the lead. They hold the lead through the second period. They come out in the third. Within the first minute or so, they make it 4-2. They're smelling the blood.

[00:06:52] By the four minutes left in the period, they get that fifth goal, really kind of lock it down. They did all the little things right. They didn't give up on a play late, and they got rewarded. They tied it up. The fear came back in, scored on the next play, got a couple insurance goals, didn't really lock it down. They kept going for it, but they just didn't happen to score again. As far as playoff intensity goes for children's sports, this was the pinnacle that I've been to, man.

[00:07:21] It was absolutely intense. But I'm coming down from that cloud and seeing that kind of commitment to winning this one particular game. And then I start watching the Devils game. And like you said, they were looking pretty good for a couple periods. I was feeling good. And then that third. There was none of that same team in the third. There was none of what this group of kids were doing to kind of go for it to ensure that you're moving on,

[00:07:49] to feel the kind of importance needed for that win. So I was very deflated from seeing kind of what they did there in the third. And I just thought it'd be a cool way to kind of share the two different scenarios you can see. Hockey's hockey. And that's what I saw from last night. It translates from all ages straight up. But then there was just that little bit of effort or style they decide to play or whatever it was.

[00:08:16] Like you mentioned, if they had just kept on a little bit more like the first two periods, maybe get that one more goal changes the complexion. They implode. And, you know, Tim, before we go to you, I just want to like, I was much more comfortable going into this third period than I was against Columbus. Again, you're talking about a two goal lead as opposed to a one goal lead. My way of thinking is, OK, even if we did crumble, we let one in. We're going to be able to lock it down.

[00:08:45] To let those four in, especially the first three right off the bat, you know, and lose that lead. After that first goal was scored and it was 3-2 in the third, this team just crumbled. Like that's the thing that and Tim, I read your recap and you're 100% right. There were there's blame to go around on this, how this whole thing happened. But like, I don't know what it is.

[00:09:11] And maybe, Tim, you're, you know, more of a hockey player kind of guy. Like, is it a style thing? Is it a fear thing? What is it going into a third period with a lead, especially we've seen recently, that this team can't play with any confidence when they have that lead into the third? Because this is not what we saw early in the year. This looks like a different team. And I know the injuries, whatever.

[00:09:39] But system-wise, it looks completely different. Yeah, I honestly, and I don't, you know, tactics and structure and like kind of schematically how you're going to play, those changes are subtle. You know, whether maybe you're dumping the puck in a little bit more and switching into as opposed to two guys going hard on the four check. You have one guy going hard or everybody's kind of hanging up high.

[00:10:11] The best way to describe it is, is I think, you know, like, like you said, this sort of prevent D where they're allowing zone entries and, and they're focusing on shot suppression and keeping chances to the outside. But, but they're not even doing a good job of, of that. And that's kind of where it breaks down. Like in, in December and, and even before that, November, December when we were shot suppression Kings,

[00:10:37] we had the personnel to play that style to be able to lock shit down. You know, like I, I've said it when Sikenthaler went down, man, like losing him is, is just an probably worse than Dougie and almost as bad as Jack. Like he is so critically important to this team. I want to read you something that really pisses me off. And this is the second game in a row where this motherfucker has said something that is really fucking pissed me off.

[00:11:05] Keith on the New Jersey Devils last two third periods. It caught me off guard. Quite honestly, this hasn't been an issue for us all season long. Don't know what to make of that. Thought Columbus was our wake up call. Why is it happening? I don't know because it caught us off guard. What the fuck are you talking about, man? That's your fucking job to prevent that from happening. It's your job in between periods to say we have a three,

[00:11:31] one lead against the worst five on five scoring team in the fucking league. And they score three, five on five goals in the first 10 minutes against us in the fucking third period. Like, how does that happen? And it's your fucking job to fix that. Those remarks are a bit disconcerting. It goes on to say, and another thing, Dylan had an A on his jersey last night. Dylan said, well, we're still learning lessons. We shouldn't be in game 71. You're fucking right. You shouldn't be learning lessons in game 71.

[00:12:01] You're 10 games away from the playoffs. Like, like you, like this is who you are. And this is who this team is. And, and I think my recap was a little bit dispassionate this morning because it's like, you know what? I'm kind of coming to grips with like, we're not going on any miracle run. We're going to get bounced in fucking five games by Carolina. They're going to fucking pump our shit in. Like we're in federal fucking prison. And that's it. I just think stylistically. And honestly, maybe all the Toronto fans are right about Keith.

[00:12:30] And stylistically, they don't like the way he, he arranges things and puts on this kind of defense first turtle shell when we, when we are ahead. And I actually have a graphic that I can show you guys. If I could pull that up now, how does that work? Yeah. Hang on. I need to open it first. Nobody's hanging out with us tonight. None of our friends came on. I told Mike where he is. It's a Friday night. Yeah.

[00:12:59] Are you suggesting that people that listen to us actually have lives? Well, I mean, probably a lot of them do. You got it or am I popping it up? I got it. I got it. Hang on. Okay. So it's a, it's a graphic. So it's a, especially by comparison. So it's, it's a, it's a fancy, it's a fancy heat map chart. I said, especially by comparison, they have lives. Not DJ. Apparently. Right. DJ. DJ's our guy.

[00:13:29] There he is. Hang on. All right. This is it. All right. So I pulled it up. So if you want to pull it up. Yeah, sure. All right. So can you guys see this? A lot of, a lot of fancy colors. I can make it bigger. Yeah. A lot of colors. Yeah. Bob. All right. So this is our shot rates by the score situation. Okay.

[00:13:57] And reading it from left to right, it's pretty well labeled as a chart. So down three or more is left all the way to up. Three or more is right. The top zones are offense. The bottom zones are defense. Okay. Okay. Red is good. Red means we have a lot more shots. Blue is good defensively. That means we're giving up a lot less shots. So you want blue on the bottom. You want red on the top. Yes. Am I reading this right? Okay. You are reading that correct.

[00:14:24] And you'll see the expected goals for and expected goals against numbers too. And how that relates to the rest of the league. So when we're down, we're putting on the gas pedal. You could see like down three or more. We are fucking firing away from everywhere. That's the far left. The deep red, deep blue defensively. What really fucking concerns me. And this is what's going on in the third period. Look at tide and up one and up two. Right. Especially, especially up one.

[00:14:54] We are getting absolutely fucking caved in. No gas. When we're up one goal. And I don't know why. That is the craziest thing to me. That should be like you score one. You smell blood. You score two. And I'm kind of worried that this team doesn't have like a killer instinct to really kind of step on people's throats. They used to have it back earlier in the season. But maybe we were getting bailed out by some good shot suppression and some good goaltending. Now we don't have that personnel. Markey's very leaky.

[00:15:23] And this is coming back to roost. You know, like this is that up one chart right there. That is the Columbus game in a nutshell, basically. They were fucking all over us, peppering us. Just Calgary wasn't as bad. Just the shots were just going in. Everything they shot was going in. And yeah, there's blame to go around. But that Zeri goal, the second goal, that was just a muffin from the point. He squeezed it off. He's got to stop that. He's got to know where it is.

[00:15:52] He's got to squeeze it off cleanly. The third goal, yeah, it was a snipe. But that guy knew where to shoot on Markstrom. And Markstrom was off his line. And if you watch the replay from the angle behind the shooter, you see Markstrom's left leg is almost halfway past the far left post. Yep. So it's just frustrating.

[00:16:14] And I'm starting to wonder if what Keefe is doing to correct this because I'm losing confidence in him very, very quickly. Well, I mean, that's kind of interesting. Bobby, how do you feel about Sheldon Keefe so far? Listen, I felt great up until recently. And if you take this particular game, I'll just remind us that that's the first time we've

[00:16:44] lost with that type of lead late in a game all year. So in a microcosm, that's not panic time. But between that chart, which was fantastic, by the way, Tim, thank you. Like that is a story being told right there. And just recent eye tests that we've been seeing lately, there's something disconnected now with the second half of the game, the later portion of the game and trying to put it away.

[00:17:12] So, yeah, I'm a little concerned now. I wouldn't go so far as to, you know, say Keefe's not the right coach for us or anything like that. But with a team that's constantly in a little bit of turmoil right now, this adds another wrinkle to that. And I don't think as constructive, this is like I said, this is not a true contender right now. This may get hot for a round or two. And I understand that we have had some significant blows personnel wise. Of course.

[00:17:39] Like we like we have, you know, like McDermott played three minutes last night and he fucking sucks at hockey. Like he just can't play hockey. And if they're not going to use him and we only have 11 forwards, then what? I'm sorry. I don't know the YouTube. What did DJ say? There you go. That's all. That's all. I just thought that was funny. I'm sorry. Continue.

[00:18:09] It wasn't, dude. I did get the staples on my head. I appreciate your concern for my health and my masturbatory habits. Well, you let us all know what you're. What'd you call it? Masturbatory habits? Yes. Okay. Yeah. You tell you, we all know what they are. As soon as doubles do good, the pants are off and you're. Pants are off. We're putting out the Juergens. By the way, go to Juergens.com and get 10% off with using code Tim Puckers. Tim Puckers. You wear Tim's wood.

[00:18:41] Remember that. Juergens.com. Look, man. I'm not. I'm not. You know, Keith is going to be around for at least another year or two. And we have significant personnel issues. Foot got called up. Now, Palat and Lazar are hurt. They went out for imaging. Yay. You know, they're trying to re-figure out the identity of themselves now because so much of their offense revolved around Jack.

[00:19:07] I hope that Mercer-Brat experiment lasted one game because we need to put Brat back with Glass and Holla. You know, the Mercer-Tatar and Foot maybe. I don't know. I don't know what they're going to do, but guys are dropping like fives. You guys. It's unbelievable. We are crawling into the playoffs right now, and it's very upsetting to go this entire year. We had all this promise early on, and now it's just slowly falling apart, and now just the wheels are completely fucking falling off.

[00:19:36] Now, when it comes to Keith, I'm still a Keith fan. I mean, the guy won a Calder trophy. He, you know, was the winningest coach in like whatever first five years than ever. I think any coach other than maybe Scotty Bowman or something, something crazy. He's got some ridiculous stat that he owns. And I like everything he did or he's done with the lineup changes. Everything seems to work.

[00:20:01] He seems to have a decent grasp of who these guys are and where to place them to get the most out of them. So that quote you said was very disconcerting to me. Now, is that him just... I remember when the Maple Leafs lost game or whatever game it was last year in the first round. I think they were playing... It was game seven and it's Boston. Yeah. The overtime goal. The overtime goal.

[00:20:30] So before that game, though, I think it was whatever game they... The last game they lost before that game. I remember seeing Keith as a presser and I caught on... We did a show afterwards and I was like, I just saw this dude. Like, he's a fucking buffoon. Like, he just looked like he had no answers. He's kind of like what he said to you in that interview that you quoted. Now, is that just...

[00:20:56] You're just giving static answers to a reporter and inside the room you're a lot more, you know, I hope vocal and animated and at least, you know, you have some kind of idea of why this happened. Why it happened is because you guys took your foot off the gas pedal. That's what happened. You know, we... I mean, it's... I understand that Calgary or any team. Insert any team that's down in the NHL in the third period.

[00:21:23] You're going to get their best for the first three or four minutes of that period. Sustain it. Do whatever you have to do. And then you keep pressing forward. They just didn't do it. Like, they were fine playing in their defensive zone the whole fucking game. Like, there was no urgency. There was no keeping... You look at the Columbus game. The last five minutes, they owned the ice. They locked it down. They played in Columbus's zone.

[00:21:52] They, you know, not having a lot is actually going to hurt defensively. I mean, if he's out for a long period of time, that is going to hurt us defensively. But I will say this with confidence. No one's foot will help this team. He is not going to be a liability. I like him a lot and I'm glad he's up finally. Maybe he can do something. But no, this team isn't going on a Stanley Cup winning run.

[00:22:17] You watch these teams like Colorado, Dallas and Toronto and Florida, Washington. These are teams that know how to score. They know how to protect the lead. They know how to shut teams down. We are still learning in 71 games in, like you said. Like, that's unacceptable. That's unacceptable. So I don't know what's going to happen. I have a very bad feeling about tomorrow. I think Ottawa is going to fucking smoke us. Possibly. I don't know.

[00:22:47] And we could go out and we could beat Ottawa and all will be right in the world again. And it's just this inconsistency. But you know what? Like, we're three and two over the last five games, right? That's a 600 winning percentage. That's actually better than where we are at our season. And that's kind of what we are. You know, we're a three and two team over five games. Yeah. You know, we haven't had any real massive, sustained, bad losing streaks. Like, Columbus just got the shit kicked out of them by Pittsburgh tonight. I don't know if you saw that.

[00:23:16] No, I didn't. Those guys just absolutely fell off a cliff. Like, I think we actually broke Columbus. And the Rangers are doing that, too. The Rangers are doing that, too. They're falling out of it, you know? The Islanders are ahead of both of them. The fucking Islanders. Like, we are by default in third. We're not in third by any virtue of our play. And if they don't watch out over these next ten games with the way Montreal and Ottawa

[00:23:43] and some of these teams in the Atlantic are playing, like, if the Islanders or if the Rangers get hot, even Columbus again, but I think they're pretty much out of it. Yeah, they're done. But next, you can go two weeks from now and there will be two points behind you to the point that if you lose that third spot, you're not getting in. Yeah, exactly. Because you're going to have a wild card team or two with more points. You know, I mean, Montreal, Ottawa, they're going to end up with more points than us.

[00:24:12] And this is something that, you know, they've got to have this urgency. Playoff hockey, all that other bullshit. Islanders will win ten in a row and we can't win fucking four. He's right. He's right. Like, every team goes on these winning streaks but us. Like, we have not won more than three in a row in over two fucking years, man. Like, this is crazy. And I don't know. I don't know. I mean, if Palat's going to be out long term, I don't really give a shit that Lazar's going to be out. He's done absolutely nothing for this fucking team.

[00:24:41] So I care less if he's fucking in the lineup. I'm fine with plugging Sprong in, you know, in that spot or whoever. I have no issues with that. Palat, though, defensively, that kind of makes me a little nervous. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Lazar was next to worthless. You know, for the record, I just want to say on Palat. No, I completely agree with you. I think Lazar is an easier loss than Palat.

[00:25:08] For all the shit I give him as far as a top six forward, there's a lot of elements to his game I'm a lot more comfortable having in these situations where you just want to play the right smart kind of brand of hockey. Even if that didn't translate to his offensive skills anymore, even if that was completely gone, there are traits that he has that are certainly a benefit to this team in these situations. So I'm not going to bust him off on that. But what is an ass? You guys are crazy. Put is going to be fine.

[00:25:38] I mean, I would be fine with what you would call it. Howling and not to. I have no problem with that. I like both of those guys. Yeah, it's just, you know, they both might be, you know, quadruple A players, you know, not quite good enough for the NHL, but really good in the AHL. You know, it's just that we don't have any other options. You know, there's no college free agents that we're going to be able to sign. Gritzik's not going to be coming over in time. Lenny Jaminijo's in his league of playoffs.

[00:26:06] You know, but like assuming that we could throw one of those guys in and it would save the world is, you know, that's delusional too. So, you know, this is our lineup got decimated. And this kind of, you know, it happens. The injuries that happened, we just couldn't withstand. But, you know, we were still showing some signs of life and some promise that we can play a different way. And Brat was stepping up and Mercer was playing a little better. And Hollis started showing signs of life. And then last night happens and it's just really demoralizing.

[00:26:34] And we were playing well for 40 minutes. We were cruising. And one of the things, you know, that another thing that happened that I meant to mention before is we were pounding the shit out of Calgary early on. Like Timo killed a guy. Tatar looks like he wants to get suspended for life from the NHL so we can retire and go play in Europe. Like he was doing some pretty dirty shit towards the end of the game. I was like, hell yeah, Tatar. Like I'd hate you if you're on the other team.

[00:27:04] But hell yeah, go get him. I don't know where that game went. Like that's all part of it. It's like that physicality left and the pressure left and the urgency left. And it's just let's just stay in between the dots. And then hopefully they get all their shots from outside the dots and we don't let anything happen. I mean, I have no faith in tomorrow at all. I really don't. I mean, what do you think, Bobby?

[00:27:34] Listen, this team, if they do one thing well, it's a surprise the hell out of you. I mean, this is exactly the type of game that they can go up and fucking five to one or some shit. It would make no actual sense. But we've seen it before. I don't know. The maddening part is like, seriously, like last night. I mean, sometimes these games we've talked about before, they just they kind of take on a life of their own. Like one bad thing happens and spirals and all that.

[00:27:59] And if you the amount of what happens this season, if you look back a year from two or now, it's not like you're going to pinpoint that loss is like this such a critical loss. I can't believe that happened. Should just be kind of a blip in the radar. But in this inconsistent season is why these things are so heightened. And it's the same thing that we talked about all of last year. And the point you made about not even be able to win four in a row for over two years. That kind of inconsistency throughout a season is what makes these losses seem so terrible.

[00:28:28] When in any other year, they can be a blip. We had Stanley Cup teams that have lost games just as bad in the last. It absolutely happens. But everything's just magnified right now. And exactly. And they're just so wildly inconsistent. And Tim, wake up. I'm looking. I'm not looking. Oh, fuck. But, you know, and he's gone.

[00:28:52] But, you know, Bobby, if they go and they beat Ottawa and they beat Chicago, whoever else we have. Let's say they crack off the next four in a row, which I highly doubt because one of them is, whatchamacallit? Winnipeg. The Jets. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't. But if they go and win the next four or five in a row, this game you're not even going to think about. It's, you know, like you said, a blip in the radar.

[00:29:19] But, again, coupled with what we've seen all year and knowing there are no reinforcements coming. If anything, we're losing more guys to injury, more of our normal lineup. As much as we might have bitched about Palat and Lazar, it's like, okay, now you have Hollinen and Foote. Like, there's a reason those guys are in the AHL. Not that I dislike them, but they're not NHL caliber players. You know, I just, I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen. And I know we're going to get into the playoffs.

[00:29:48] We're going to play Carolina. Yeah, you guys. There's a better chance of fucking Rachel Herzog than what? Winning four in a row? Do you guys really think she's that hot? Are they talking to me? Do you guys think she's that hot? She's very attractive. No, Bobby absolutely has a fucking raging heart on for Rachel Herzog. I mean, if we text him when she's on TV, he's like, quiet, Rachel's on.

[00:30:17] So, like, this is how he gets. That's exactly what he says. Actually, we actually get, like, shush. We're like, shh, Rachel. Hush. Yeah. Hush, Rachel. So, I mean, look. I think she's cute. I think she's cute, but I don't think she is, you know, she's not Erica Wachter. Erica Wachter. She looks like she's 15. So, I was – no, sorry.

[00:30:46] I was – when you caught me looking at this land freezing. I was just looking at what the Senators have done over the last couple of games. And, yeah, they had a – you know, they got smoked by the Avalanche and the Canadians the last two games, which I don't know if that bodes well or is bad for us. Ottawa. Ottawa. Yeah, it bodes probably bad, you know. Probably bad. Bad. But, you know, that's a 7 o'clock start tomorrow, so at least we don't have to deal with a 1 or

[00:31:16] 3 o'clock afternoon start. And that's at home, right? I believe so, yes. Yeah. Not a big fan of Erica. My God. Go get glasses, Jay. Jesus. Jesus. Yeah, dude. We had our Erica moment with, you know, three of us after opening day, we just go up there. We kind of go to the broadcast and just kind of wait. And we used to get autographs or whatever from Kenny and stuff. Obviously, we don't need more than one of those, so that stopped. But, yeah, she would just, like, walk by. Because, you know, the arena is empty at this point.

[00:31:44] And just saunter, look over, switch, like, hey, boys. And just kind of kept walking. And we're like, yeah, she knows. She knows she's hot. Yeah, she does. She does. Oh, yeah. Definitely. I think Rachel's probably much cooler to hang with. I think I'd rather have a beer with Rachel and, like, talk hockey than Erica. She knows a lot about hockey. She's got the hockey legs. So, before we get into some goaltending stuff. Bob, I have hockey legs, too. That's a different kind of leg, dude.

[00:32:11] You know, Rachel pulls her skirt up and, like, big, fat, hairy calves. Well, let's get the tape measure out. Yeah, I could see Rachel being a little freaky, Jay. I give you that. This is Minnesota girls. Stay warm at night, right? Are you getting a different feed? Text feed? I'm not seeing any of those types of comments. Are you looking at the comments? Yeah. On YouTube? No. No. I mean, whatever.

[00:32:43] Dad, Jay's on fire right now. All right. I've got to open this up. Dad ruined it for you because now, Rachel, you're going to just constantly think about her hairy legs. All right. How about we do some predictions, boys? God, I'm sure. I was supposed to do that, huh? Yeah. We'll start with you, Tim. But before we do a little accountability session here. All right. So, Tim, you have a lot of red here. You said last week the Devils would shut out the Jets. We got our asses kicked.

[00:33:11] You said Jake Allen would be traded at the trade deadline. Thank God he's not. And you did get right, though, that New Jersey would win both games against the Columbus Blue Jackets. So, very good, Tim. You got one out of three. You still lead, I think, in points. The black is what hasn't come off the board yet. The red is wrong. And the green is right. So, actually, you got two points. You got the Jacks. We'll have 100 points. That's wrong. So, you got New Jersey. You'll split with Vegas and Utah, which we did. And you won this one about the Blue Jackets.

[00:33:39] So, before we get to your predictions, let's see. We'll do Bobby's accountability session. Bobby, a lot of red, dude. A lot of red. You said the Devils would beat the Jets. You said that Vegas would shut out the Penguins. And you still have on the board that Vasilevsky would win at least 37. Hold on there, buddy. The Vegas did shut out the Penguins. They did? Yes. Oh, well, then you're right. I apologize. I just, I didn't even check. I just assumed that they didn't. I was super psyched about that.

[00:34:08] And it made me really wonder, like, what was Dan's problem? That was, like, the easiest prediction I ever did. Well, then you got a point. I will change that to red. I'll change that to red. I mean, to green. I'm sorry. And my accountability. I said that Nemitz would score against the Flyers. And I said that we would win four in a row starting with the Flyer game. And I was wrong. So that's my red. So right now, Tim, I think you have two points. Bobby has one. I have none.

[00:34:32] But we got until the Stanley Cup is raised before we do actual winners and losers. Bobby, what is your first prediction of the week? I'm going to stick with my newfound success in the shutout streak. And I'm going to say that Dallas shuts out the Flyers this weekend. What day is that? I think it's tomorrow. That's Saturday. That's tomorrow. All right. Tim, your first prediction.

[00:35:04] Can I say something as easy as we're going to beat the Senators tomorrow? You can do that. I mean, is that that easy really, though, Tim? I mean. I don't know. I honestly, good question. We beat the Senators tomorrow. All right. Actually, can I? I want to. I want to roll. I wanted to roll three things together into one on that because I feel like that's too easy. We beat the Senators tomorrow. Timo scores. And Brad has two assists.

[00:35:34] You need to nail all three in a hat trick. Yeah. Going for the hat trick. All right. I will also make my first prediction about tomorrow. If Nolan Foote or Brian Hallinan. Did we call Hallinan up or no? It was just Foote for now. Okay. So, so Foote's 90% going to be in the lineup tomorrow, right? I would. I don't see what he would do. You would think so, right? I don't see what he would do.

[00:36:02] If he is in the lineup, he will score a goal. So, that's what I'm going to say. Tomorrow against the Sens, if he's in the lineup. If he's not, I lose. Bobby, your second prediction. I'm going to go with Brad stepping up for us with at least a goal and an assist against Ottawa. One goal, one assist against Ottawa. All right. Tim, your second prediction.

[00:36:31] Cody Glass has three points next week. Now, which games are we talking about from when to when? That is through, well, let's say through the Blackhawks. So, Ottawa, Canucks, Winnipeg, and then Blackhawks. And then Chicago. Okay. All right. So, three points, three games. All right.

[00:37:01] My second prediction. Jacob Markstrom will get the start against Chicago in Chicago. Jacob Markstrom will shut out the Chicago Blackhawks next week. All right. All right. And Bobby, your third and final prediction.

[00:37:25] I will say that we will score a shorthanded goal between Friday and the Chicago game. So, within the next three. So, that would be Ottawa, Vancouver, Chicago as well. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Tim, your third and final prediction. We score at least five goals against the Blackhawks. Okay. Five goals against Chicago. If we fucking lose that game, I'm going to fucking lose my mind.

[00:37:55] Seriously. I might just pack it. You just predicted a shutout, and I said five goals. I know. Like, two to one. Exactly. Listen, I want to make this – I want to make something very, very clear. And I'll say this saying I really don't think we're going to fall out of playoff position. But that game on the 5th of April against the Rangers that I'm going to and paying a frickin' arm and a leg for. Like, I really, really, really want this to be a meaningful game. I want the team to be playing well.

[00:38:23] I'd love to know that this might be a nail in the Rangers' coffin. Not sure how that's going to work out. But, yeah, we need to stay well above water before that game. If we lose to the Blackhawks and shit leading up to that game, I'm going to be very bitter going there. I'm going to be honest with you. The Devils have done a very good job this year with bouncing back after losses. And so, I mean, I don't expect this – I don't expect them to fall out of playoff positioning. They are better than every team behind them.

[00:38:50] So, just, you know, win your few games that you've got to fucking win. I think we said back when there was 18 games left, they had to go 10-8, right? 10-8 to secure a playoff spot at that point. Two games over 500. Yeah, that's it. And now how many games are left? 11? 10? 11? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. All right, DJ's got Dylan fight tomorrow.

[00:39:19] And the Devils win. 12 games left? Yeah. So, that means that we had six games since we made that 10-8 prediction, right? So, there were 18 games left. And in those six games, what did we go? 4-4? In six games, we went 4-4? No, yeah, you're right.

[00:39:44] Those last – the last six games before that, I meant 4-4 and – no, it wasn't 4-2, was it? Too much back in time for me there. Yeah, all right. But it doesn't matter. I think there was like two losses. We're 3-2 in our last five. That's as far back as that. My third and final prediction is that in our rematch in Winnipeg, the Devils will win in overtime. We will beat the Jets in overtime. All the things that aren't going to happen. Yeah, I know.

[00:40:13] But, you know, I'm going to go through some points here. I'm just – Throw Jay Snow's prediction in there too. All right. So, Jay, you had a couple. So, no, DJ's got Dylan Fite and the Devils win. Hang on. Let me get these down. Here we go. So, DJ's got Dylan Fite, Devils win 4-2. You're talking about Ottawa tomorrow, I'm guessing, right, DJ? And then we have – let's see.

[00:40:40] Jay Snow is saying Niko Gull and Devils win 4-2. You could both have a – oh, no. He isn't. Jay Snow had a 4-2 win. 4-2, Devs win. Niko Gull. All right. The listeners are on the board. Sweet. You need one more prediction from the listeners, though. You guys got to make three. Three. We made three. So, you guys each make one and we'll pick the best one. Fight over. Chat amongst yourselves.

[00:41:10] Like, just – can these guys just play a good, winning, consistent 60 minutes? Like, the last two games are so frustrating with how they just – the first 40 minutes were great in both games. Objectively good, solid hockey. Like, Calgary – like, I was like, we are cruising. We are going to go 4-1 over these last five games. Markstrom was looking a little iffy and off his lines a little bit, but he was hanging in there. You know, it was good. He was battling.

[00:41:40] But then – like, I just – like, what the fuck, man? Like, what is happening here that we're just getting – that we're just turtling in these thirds? And everybody sees it and we all know it. And it's hard to beat this drum, but it's like, Keith just saying, like, I don't know why it happened. It's like, what the fuck, man? You know, it's possible that in the context of that, what he means is that he is preaching the hell out of it

[00:42:04] and that he especially used the Columbus jacket game as, like, another pinpoint to that. Therefore, he's very disgusted at the team for not following through. Like, I don't know. Like, listen, it's on him. I agree with that. It's on him. He'd be able to kind of rile that in and start to get it corrected. But he may just be speaking from that area too. I got to believe he's, you know, preaching that message like a motherfucker.

[00:42:30] Yeah, but, you know, again, just the taking your foot off the gas. Like, I mean, I remember being told when I was, like, 11 years old, it's always stuck with me and it's a fucking phrase that everybody uses. But, look, it's in football and it's the same thing with hockey. If you've been defense, the only thing that prevents you from doing is winning. And all you're doing is sitting back and allowing teams to take shots. These are pros, right? That you can't just let a team, you know, line up and run it down your throat

[00:42:59] or throw it all over the field or spend 20 minutes in your fucking offensive zone wearing your guys down with a goaltender that just came off of an injury and has been extremely shaky since his return. That's not how you treat that third period. Plain and simple. So, if anything, it was – yeah, I'm sorry. How much of it is the confidence that they can't withstand it late in the game because of the players they're missing? Like, is it in their head or are these athletes way past something like that?

[00:43:29] And they can just be programmed to do it. Yeah, Hubert said it after the game. He's like, those guys looked like they were kind of gassed. Like, Pesci, that's two games in a row that he's played over 25 minutes. Luke's right there too, although Luke is a little younger. He could probably withstand it. But, you know, we're running out McDermott three minutes a game. That means we're playing 11 forwards. Nemec played eight minutes. You know, that means we're basically running five days. So, running 11th is going to run guys into the ground.

[00:43:56] I think Nemec, I think a lot of his ice time issues were in the second period when – because he doesn't kill penalties, I don't think, or they don't exactly trust him to kill penalties. And we had, you know, the three straight kills in the second. That was another thing, man. Like, the three of those goals were five on five in the third period. Like, our penalty kill was better than the five on five play. Like, our shot suppression and zone clearances on the penalty kill,

[00:44:25] like during that second, were outstanding. Outstanding. The thing that's so frustrating about last night was Calgary did not win that fucking game. We lost it. Just straight up. Like, it wasn't like, oh, my God, here's the Calgary team we didn't see for the first two periods. It was, what the fuck happened to the devil team that we just saw for the last two periods? Like, it was completely them. Completely them.

[00:44:52] Just this attitude of, all right, guys, we got the lead. Let's just hold on to it at whatever cost. And just, you know, we're going to make the smart play. Well, sometimes the smart play is, like you said, icing the puck, winning some fucking face-offs, and spending time down in the offensive zone. And just staying on top of them. And we didn't. We let them back in, and it drives me crazy. I don't, again, if we're really worried about fucking Pesci's ice time

[00:45:21] before the playoffs even start, then we're in serious trouble. If we can't trust Nemitz more than eight minutes in a game, maybe the penalties and stuff had a lot to do with that. I'm willing to, okay, if tomorrow's game goes differently and he still ends up with the eight or nine minutes, we have to rethink that. We can't have one of our six defensemen only playing eight minutes. We can't have a fourth-line player playing three minutes. Did we need McDermott in that lineup last night to fucking, to?

[00:45:49] I think we did. I mean. I think we did personnel-wise. Well, personnel-wise, because Lazar and Palat were out. Oh, okay. We literally didn't have any. Right. Like, we don't even have, we didn't, like, we didn't have anybody else with a fucking pulse on the roster. If you call Nolan's foot up or Brian Hallinan up a couple of days early with that hindsight, you know, we knew that those guys had mispracticed the day prior. You know, prepare for it. Instead of it being McDermott. That's a very good point. And again, I have no issues with McDermott. Play them then.

[00:46:17] You know, don't put a fucking forward on the roster. Not scratch that night and only play three minutes. I can't. That's bad. That's just bad management of your fucking personnel, in my opinion. Yeah. And real quick, last thing. If you're going to put them in, if you're going to put them in, you tell them you better go fucking knock the shit out of somebody. Yeah. Go break Lomburg in half. Yeah. Go break Lomburg in half and throw them into the fucking parking lot. Like, that's why you're here.

[00:46:44] I did see McDermott threaten him early, early in the game and nothing came of it. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't fight fucking McDermott either. PJ and Jay Snow both brought up Kovacevich last night, who was awful. Like, he was on for all four of their even strength goals. You know, and that game, their go-ahead goal, Hubert O's goal, was just one of the – like, that was just an awful play. Like, I don't know what he's doing.

[00:47:10] He's shown glimpses of why he was a career number 7D, but he's also shown glimpses of being overlooked. You know, so we need him to kind of rein that back in and come back. Like, you know, I'm really hoping that we didn't sign a guy – was it four million for five years? Is that what he is? Yep. Like, I'm really hoping we didn't sign a Seekenthaler merchant for five years. Like, I'm very concerned about that.

[00:47:37] Well, I mean, I think that that was a really boneheaded decision at that time. Like, you wait at least until after the season, after your playoffs. He's not rushing off to another fucking team. Then you sit down and talk. Let's see how things play out. You handed this dude that fucking contract right away. I have a problem with that. And it wasn't, like you said, a small contract. It was four years. Oh, yeah, with the no trade clause too. I mean, yeah, because if that's his value and his –

[00:48:07] His off-season value is probably worth a little more. It was probably a little bit of a, hey, you can lock this up now and make it guaranteed versus – But if that's his roundabout value, then what was the urgency? Because you're going to – Right. What, you're competing with a $20 million offer? If that worries you going into next year, we've got bigger problems. Like, it could have waited. There's bigger things to do at the trade deadline. Like, Tom Fitzgerald is the fucking chick in the bar that anybody can bring home if you're just nice to her and buy her a drink.

[00:48:36] Like, all these guys got to do is, like, you show up and you're part of the fucking Jersey team and you're part of the family. Tom, I love it here. Do you want a four-year, $4 million contract with no trade clause? Because I'm giving it to you. It's like Fitzgerald. I work in a hot dog stand. I don't care. I'm paying you. Is Fitzgerald giving them, like, their down payment too on houses and, like, you know, playing for their daycare? Like, what the fuck, man? I know. And, you know, it really worries me going into the offseason because, you know, we went over this already with, like,

[00:49:05] what our kind of roster breakdown is looking like next year. You know, we only have a couple – like, assuming Luke signs, like, an $8.5 million extension, all signs are pointing to that. And I was actually wrong on my chart. Glass is probably going to get about $3 million, maybe a little bit more than that. But he's got a year left, though. No. No, he's an RFA. He's an RFA? He's an RFA, yeah. So to buy up all those years, his contract will go up by buying up his years.

[00:49:31] So we only have, like, $2 million or so with the cap going up left after those guys. And my biggest concern, what you were just talking about, is that Fitz doesn't have the balls to cut ties with Palat, Hala, and or Hamilton. I hate to see Dougie go. Like, I love Dougie. But we need – yeah, there it is. He's just been preaching what I've been saying the whole year. Yeah, it's like we – you know, we got to – We got to get rid of one of these big, big contracts. We have so much dead weight. Like, and that's including losing Tatar and Bastion and Lazar.

[00:50:00] Like, we're not bringing those guys back. They're not coming back. And if they are – Yeah, like, Bastion is part of the whole Hockey Canada rapist crowd. You know, like, I don't want that motherfucker anywhere near my team anymore. Besides the fact he fucking sucks at hockey. This summer, the, like, top of the fucking whiteboard in Tom Fitzgerald's office needs to be getting rid of those three guys you just said, releasing Andre Palat. You got to eat it. You got to fucking eat it.

[00:50:29] I mean, you could shop him around, see if anybody's willing to take on some of that contract or maybe you don't have to eat it all. I mean, that's fine too. But Dougie Hamilton needs to be a trade chip this summer. You have to make a big hockey trade. There are teams that would love to have Dougie Hamilton. You're going to get a good asset back. You're looking for that forward to play with Jack when he's healthy or whatever you want. I don't give a shit. But you have to get rid of one of those guys. He's not going to trade Timo. He's not going to get rid of Timo. He's not going to get rid of Brad.

[00:50:58] And so who else on that other than Palat and Hamilton have the big contracts? I mean, we're not even going to talk about each other. Jack, I mean, they're untouchable. Yeah, you're talking, what, nine plus six plus three and a half? He's going to love Utah. He might. I honestly think Seattle and San Jose are actually probably good fits for Dougie. He likes being in low-key, quiet markets. He's a quiet guy. I think those two markets would prefer him.

[00:51:26] Seattle needs that kind of jolt in their system. I mean, if you're Seattle and you're like Brandon Montour on the first power play and Dougie Hamilton on the second power play unit, like that's fucking firepower right there, man. I'd be. Yeah, that's pretty nails. Anaheim's a good idea, too. Somewhere fucking, somewhere west coast where he won't come back and like. Bite us in the ass. Rappers at us. Yeah. Quiet. And you're going to get. And you're going to get something back for him. As far west as we can send him. Quiet.

[00:51:58] Enjoy the, enjoy the Kung Lai Red Stars, pal. It just, it has to be done. But I agree with you, Tim, a hundred percent. I don't know if Fitz has the balls to do it. I really don't. He's just that dude that wants it. You know, everybody's singing Kumbaya around the bonfire at night. And it's like, you know, I like my jams to be nasty. He can't have it all, though. You're either going to like have these elite defensive prospects that you want to use or you're going to keep like.

[00:52:26] The stud horses that you have. So one of them has to go then. Like you can't have it all. And we saw that he doesn't want to part with his draft. Well, not his draft capital, but his minor league assets. Right. So at some point there's a jam here. Something you got to pick one or the other. He needs to get a little more stern, man. You got to actually go for it. This window of time with like Jack and Nico. It's aging every year. I know it seems like. Oh, they're so young. But but suddenly. Yeah.

[00:52:54] But Jackson's never going to play a full season, so it doesn't fucking matter. I mean, Jackson, Jackson's going to come back. He's going to be six, three to twenty. We'll be. Well, I mean, he's got both fucking shoulders done now. So I can't wait to see what fucking breaks on him next. Is it a winter soldier when he comes back? Like, that's fine with me. But, you know, just it's the same fucking way. It's always into the goddamn boards at 100 miles an hour. I love that he plays that way. But it's funny because it's not like his upper body.

[00:53:22] It's like his best asset is also his worst asset. And last night. Well, last night was the first time since his injury when we pulled Marky and we were trying to get that equalizer before to hit the empty netter. And that was the only time since he's been gone. And I'm like, I fucking miss Jack. Like, this is where we need Jack to just he'll he'll he'll make something happen.

[00:53:46] And instead, we got Luke doing 20 foot drop passes, trying to get into the zone instead of just taking the fucking thing in. Maybe maybe we can just like teach Jack that his stop line is the top of the circles. Like, that's your stop line, not the boards. That's not never going to the net. It's right here. Like you stay right there. Right. By the way, that's his stopping point because it's Jack we're talking about. He needs the other 10 feet to actually stop. Yeah, he needs to see me. It's like, you're right. It's almost there's your runway. It's like the bumpers and bowling.

[00:54:17] Like, it's a smart idea. You can't be not allowed to go. You're not allowed to go outside the dots or like below the hash. Rubber bumpers around the end boards. Just when he's on that side of the eye. Just pop up. Yeah, pop up. Exactly. Oh, look, the pussy bumper's up. Jack's on the ice. Oh, look, he's flying right into it. So I was kind of giggling to myself during one of the power plays. Luke actually did the slingshot drop pass before the blue line, the defensive blue line. I was like, there it is. I was like, there it is.

[00:54:47] It was so bad. That one stood out to me too, man. One day Allen or Markie's not going to be paying attention. That fucking thing's going to roll right in. He's just going to throw it back there blindly. Every team does it. It's just like, you know, it is what it is. I don't want to know how you know that. Seriously. I don't want to know how you know that. Actually, I do want to know how you know that. Did you guys read it? Jack's got two glass shoulders, but a huge cock. I'm just wondering how come he knows that. Are you like on his OnlyFans account or something?

[00:55:18] Tim told me. Spike. Yeah. Well, that's probably next. He's going to come on. Maybe after his next injury, he's going to have a sling around his fucking ball sack. Just carrying around. Over the summer when we're running out of content, we do actually review how big everybody's dick we think on the team is. So come back. There's only one guy. I'm so tired of winning this. There's only one guy that I've ever heard rumors about that were on the Devils.

[00:55:47] You know, she said it was cute. It's like a little mushroom in a field. I was surprised when I clicked it. The light didn't turn on. Bingo, DJ. Jim McKenzie is the only guy that I've ever heard talk about. And there's a reason. They call him Big Jim and it's not pussy six foot four. Here we go. Five guys just talking about dicks at 11 o'clock on a Friday night.

[00:56:18] That's why we don't have lives. But that's it. It's Jim McKenzie. Yeah. I've heard Freddie Braithwaite had quite the lasso. Who's that? Freddie Braithwaite. He was not a devil. Not a devil. He was a black goalie. Well, I don't remember him. Well, there you go. Right? Isn't that the old stereotype there? Jesus Christ. That's a little racist, I think. I think Jim was definitely a shower, DJ. I do not think he was a grower.

[00:56:48] I think he was all man from the minute that he fucking stepped out of bed in the morning to the time he went to sleep. He was definitely not a grower. Jesus Christ. All right. What else do you guys want to talk about? Now that I'm horny, I got to fucking log off. Can we end on something fun then? Because this is Scott Lowe. Bobby, you got something? Bobby's got it. Take us home, Bobby.

[00:57:16] We were going to do another season of the Devils. But as Tim pointed out, there's only a finite number of seasons that we can do. And we plan on being around longer than that. So instead, I've just got a nice, simple book of Devils trivia here. We've got some people online so they can jump in too. I think there's like 22 pages. So Tim, just pick a random page. We'll answer some of the questions to see if we actually know anything about this team. Page 19. Page 19. That was what I would say. Good call. That was my number when I was growing up.

[00:57:46] I have it tattooed on my testicles. Really? Okay. No. What? Okay. Do you have any tattoos? No, I don't. My dad had two rules. He's like, don't get a tattoo and don't ride on a motorcycle. Those are pretty good rules. Yeah. Those are his only two rules. Those are the rules I followed. Although I have thought about getting a Woody Woodpecker holding a hockey stick somewhere. This is why your dad had those rules. Don't do that. I'm with it. And yes, that's it. You get a guest appearance.

[00:58:16] I bet you put it on your ass too. Your lower back maybe. If you get this one right. Jay wants to come over. Did you freeze or are you staring death at me? Oh. He's staring death at you. You were staring death at me. I'm just kidding, bro. You get whatever tattoo you want. All right. Yeah. If he would be a Woodpecker with a hockey stick would be awesome. It's actually pretty. With a little devil's jersey and a number 19 on it. Oh, God. I think it'd be the coolest kid in all of it. The 19 is for... That was my number all through college. Nice. My last name being Wood. Woody was my nickname.

[00:58:45] So that's... Okay. Okay. Where'd they get that from? That makes sense. Seems like a... Because hockey players are really fucking stupid and they throw a Y on the end of your last name. Yeah. That's why we brought you in. We needed some stupidity in the show. No. We had enough of that. If he was an NHL player, he'd be Bobby E. Yeah. Bobby Y. It wouldn't go well because, again, I can't skate. Worth a damn. All right. All right. Here we go. We've got eight questions. Let's just see what we can do here. We'll go pretty fast.

[00:59:12] What team was the first opponents the Devils faced in the postseason ever? Can I answer that? You can answer. Anybody can answer whatever you want. Guys can chat. I am 90%. 90% sure it was the Pittsburgh Penguins. Any other guesses? I have no idea. I was going to say Montreal, but... Okay. It is the New York Islanders. Ah. Okay. Okay. DJ said Bruins. Incorrect. Okay.

[00:59:38] Martin Brodeur is one of just a handful of goalies to have scored more than one goal in his career. Against which teams did he score his first two goals against? I know Montreal was the first one. And the second one. Oh, boy. Oh, was that Pittsburgh? It was a Western Conference team, wasn't it, Bobby? It was not a Western Conference team. It wasn't. It was a local-ish team. Philly. Is DJ saying Philly?

[01:00:08] Definitely local. Yes. DJ is correct. It is the Flyers. All right. I believe that was more of a save and less devil to touch the puck. Yeah. He didn't shoot. Flyers scored on themselves after that. Yeah. Okay. How many points did Patrick Ilyash have in the 98-99 season? This is a tricky one. 96? That's a clue. 98? No. It's a hard one. I'm not going to wait for any guesses to come in because it was 50.

[01:00:37] Apparently, that was a down year or maybe an injured year. Okay. I thought we were going with this record. This one is a layup. DJ was really close on that. I need this answered immediately. DJ was close on that. He's got quick Google skills. Which Devils player and captain went by the nickname of Captain Kirk? Come on. Three seconds. Kirk Cousins. Cousins. Kirk Cousins. He wasn't a captain? Get football off the brain. Oh, I'm sorry.

[01:01:07] I'm just so excited with how awesome my Vikings have done so far this preseason or pre-agency. So psyched. Is there more? Yes. Okay, cool. What award did Scott Gomez win at the end of the 99-1000 season? Yes. Maybe the year. How many times has Claude Lemieux had the team number 22? How many times what did he win? How many times has Claude Lemieux had the team number of 22 on the Devils?

[01:01:37] Twice? Twice. Twice. Yeah. Huh. Weird question. Two more. Which Scott did not play for the Devils during the 2002-2003 season when they won their Stanley Cup? I don't quite understand why this is a question. Did not play? Did they have like three Scots? I'm assuming there was a Scott on the roster. I don't even know this. Gomez.

[01:02:09] Gomez wasn't on the 23 team, was he? No, 0-2, 0-3. Oh, yeah. The 0-3 team. Was Gomez on that? Yeah. Oh, he won them both? Yeah, he won two Cups with us. Oh, okay. My bad. All right. Which Scott wasn't? Scott Clemonson wasn't on that team. I don't even know Scott wasn't on that team. Okay. If you don't know, Scott's not wearing on that fucking team. It's Scott Speed. What? Scott Speed? This book is making shit up like Tim now. That's not even a real thing. Yeah. That's not what it says. Scott Speed.

[01:02:39] Come on, at least try if you're going to be on the Devils. Scott Speed was not a fucking person on the Devils. I'm sorry. Maybe he didn't have to be on the Devils. Maybe it's any Scott in the world that wasn't a Devil. I don't know how they wrote this question. I don't understand. Very strange question. Look up Scott Speed. All right. This is a good one.

[01:02:57] How many Devils players on the team that won the Stanley Cup in 1995 were players who had played in games with the team during the 80s? Wait. Repeat the question. I'm looking up Scott Speed. How many Devils players on the 95 Stanley Cup team were players who played in games with the Devils in the 80s? Three. Okay.

[01:03:27] Hang on. Let me go. I don't want to go with just three. I want to hear who you think it is because I could throw out a number two. Bobby Carpenter. Danico Broughton and McClain. No, Broughton wasn't with them in the 80s. I don't have the names, by the way. Aaron Broughton was. Neil Broughton was the one on the 95 team. They didn't. So that's three. Sean Chambers, four? Was he with them in the 80s? No, he wasn't with them in the 80s. I might go with Tim and just the three. Three.

[01:03:57] So three. We got two. And let's see. In the chat, we basically got two. It's five. I don't know who the five are. I forgot about Terreri. He was. Yeah. So we know it was Carpenter. I mean, yeah. Bobby Carpenter. John McClain. John McClain. Ken Danico. Ken Danico. Chris Terreri. Who else? Broughton was not. Broughton was. Aaron Broughton was in the 80s and we traded for Neil in 95.

[01:04:27] So those two weren't the same Broughton. When did Richie come to the team? Was that the 90s? Early 90s? Yeah, because he won the cup in Montreal in 94, 93, didn't he? It was Richie. Yeah, Richie was on that team. Richie was the last Montreal Canadian to score 50 goals. How crazy is that? Wow. Still? To this day. Wow. Stephon Richie is the last Montreal Canadian to score 50. So no, it wasn't Richie. Stevens wasn't on the team yet.

[01:04:56] Niedermeyer was fucking playing minor league back in the 80s. Wasn't Sean Chambers? Might have been Sean Chambers. It might have been Sean Chambers. So what I'm going to do is before we get off the show, I'm just going to check something real quick. Because I figure if I... Hockey reference. That's where I was just going.

[01:05:25] Did you go to 1989? Did McKay play in the 80s? I went to the... I'm going to go to 1989 because it's the last year in the 80s. So they should... No, Chambers came to us the year before. 94? 94. 94. 95. God damn it. Yeah, he was on Tampa Bay Lightning and then 94. 95 he got traded. That's right. He was with Tampa. You're right.

[01:05:53] So, Seamus, Reed Simpson, Jason Smith. It was Tommy Alvillian, guys. Tommy. Okay. That's Tommy Alvillian. That's it. Was it Alvillian? Yeah. Tommy Alvillian was with him in 1989. He won the top in 95. Has to be him. It's kind of impressive to have five from the 80s on that team. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. A lot of guys stuck around for some bad years. That was a good question. I like that game. If we don't do... So the nights that we don't... The weeks we don't do, the devil... The year of the devil will do that.

[01:06:23] Yeah, it's all prepared. You guys, DJ did awesome. All right. So anything else, boys? Want to give a quick prediction? No, no. Everybody, for Ottawa tomorrow? Well, hell, I threw it out in jest. I'll stay with it. 5-1 Devils. I'm going to get free on that. 5-1 Devils. Wow. Let's go. 4-2 Devils. I'm going to go the other way. 5-1 Ottawa. Good. Because when you think they're going to lose, they win. So that's good. Is the cookie dead now?

[01:06:53] Are we never discussing... Right. No. We're still... Totally destroyed us last night. We're still on Team Cookie. I'm still on Team Cookie. Well, I have a beer league tomorrow, so I'm going to miss the game. I'm still on Team Pluto, but apparently I'm wrong. You know, it just... It happens. All right. All right. We're out of here. Wherever you guys are listening, like, five-star review, positive comments. Subscribe to the YouTube channel. DJ J, you guys, thank you so much for hanging out tonight.

[01:07:23] It's always fun. For Tim and Bob, I'm Chris. We're the Uncle Puckers, and we will see you when we see you. Bye-bye. You guys are losers, BattleCut. It's over, Johnny. It's over!